Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
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VERY GOOD+ condition — Tight binding. Crisp exterior. Clean, unmarked pages. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.
This text was featured in the Easton Press series Great Books of the 20th Century. Published in 2001, bound in handsome Navy Blue leather, and beautifully illustrated by Barbara Higgins Bond, this edition would be a worthy addendum to your collectible books library.
Specifics of this series from the Easton Press website:
* Fully and tightly bound in genuine leather
* 22kt gold accents deeply inlaid on the "hubbed" spine.
* Heavy duty binding boards... .
* Superbly printed on acid-neutral paper... .
* Sewn pages – not just glued like ordinary books.
* ...moiré endpages and a satin-ribbon page marker.
* Gilded page ends.
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" 'From one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of the twentieth century: a truly remarkable book' (The New York Times), an epic story of a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. . . .
In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows—gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended."
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Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873[A] – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.
Willa Cather and her family moved from Virginia to Webster County, Nebraska, when she was nine years old. The family later settled in the town of Red Cloud. Shortly after graduating from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Cather moved to Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At the age of 33, she moved to New York City, her primary home for the rest of her life, though she also traveled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. She spent the last 39 years of her life with her domestic partner, Edith Lewis, before being diagnosed with breast cancer and dying of a cerebral hemorrhage. Lewis is buried beside her in a Jaffrey, New Hampshire plot.
Cather achieved recognition as a novelist of the frontier and pioneer experience. She wrote of the spirit of those settlers moving into the western states, many of them European immigrants in the nineteenth century. Common themes in her work include nostalgia and exile. A sense of place is an important element in Cather's fiction: physical landscapes and domestic spaces are for Cather dynamic presences against which her characters struggle and find community.
The above text was taken from, respectively, Knopf Doubleday publishing (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.
Synopsis
Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by Willa Cather. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory. The novel was included on Time Magazine's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 as well as the Modern Library's list of the 100 Best Novels.
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- Title
- Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Author
- Willa Cather
- Illustrator
- Barbara HIggins Bond
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Great Books of the 20th Century series
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 2001
- Weight
- 2.50 lbs
- Keywords
- Leather bound, Collector's edition
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